COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
35312
Record number:
35312-7
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVL 10 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Pocahuntas Virginiae Regis filia expatiatum profecta, astu intercipitur, cap. 1.2.3.
Place image published:
[Oppenheim]
Image publisher:
[Hieronymus Galler]
Image date:
[1619]
Image function:
illustration; plate 7
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
36.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native Americans stand conversing. In the background, a native American man accepts a cask from an Englishman on a boat while two native women stand near. English soldiers dine aboard a ship. In the background a native American settlement burns while men run on the banks of a river.
Source Title:
[America. Pt 10. Latin] Americae pars decima: Qua continentur, I. Duae navigationes Dn. Americi Vesputii ... II. Solida narratio de moderno provinciae Virginiae statu ... III. Vera descriptio Novae Angliae ...
Source place of publication:
Oppenheimii [Oppenheim]
Source publisher:
Typis Hieronymi Galleri
Source date:
M DC XIX. [1619]
notes:
Pocahontas, also known as Matoaka, was taken hostage by Captain Samuel Argall in 1613. He had bribed some of her companions, tricked her into coming aboard his ship, and held her captive in return for the release of English prisoners in the custody of her father, Powhatan. The chief refused to negotiate, so Governor Thomas Dale sailed up the York River and burned a native village. During her captivity, Pocahontas was baptized and married John Rolfe. This work was published by Johann Theodor de Bry and contains three parts. The first part includes two letters of Amerigo Vespucci describing his voyages to America in 1497 and 1499. The second is derived from Ralph Hamor, A true discours of the present state of Virginia, London, 1615. The third part is derived from Captain John Smith, A description of New England, London, 1616. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 10. Latin. Imprint information from colophon.
Time Period:
1601-1650
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 171
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1871.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
Subject headings:
Indians of North America
Pocahuntas Virginiae Regis filia expatiatum profecta, astu intercipitur, cap. 1.2.3.
